Everyone thinks Jeff Halfley is great, including me, and yet this Packers defense fell apart down the stretch.

The Packers have to figure out, was that more about the players or the coaches?

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And this is something that I've been,

I've been trying to mull over. I've been trying to figure out last five games. You know, we, we, on the squad shows and on my show, we've been talking about, okay, what exactly happened. And I think some of the stuff is explainable. But like you and I think Jeff Hathley is a really good coach. You called on the squad show before the year. He's going to be a head coach. And yet, to my eyes, this defense underperformed. What is your theory on why that is? Well, I think the biggest one, and it's the most obvious, Peter, you lose Micah Parsons, right? And like that was, to me, the biggest thing. The Packers did not win a game in 2025 after he went down in Denver when it looked like

at that moment in Denver prior to him going down and Zach Tom and Christian Watson also part of that

it looked like this Packers team was getting ready to take over the NFL like they were the hottest

team in the NFL they were winning that game up nine in the second half and things just fell apart

in that moment and then after he goes down,

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